certainty needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 290 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
certainty is the highest-scoring word from certainty, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 290 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in certainty — and it is certainty itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certainty. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tenacity, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in certainty produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain. For points, the strongest plays are cattery, cyanite, and nectary — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling certainty turns up 34 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cairny, carney, nicety, and yttric, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certainty. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, cater and entry. For points, the strongest plays are canty, carny, catty, and yince — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in certainty produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cart and cent. For points, the strongest plays are city, cyan, and racy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling certainty turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are cay, cry, and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in certainty. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in certainty plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in certainty and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
certainty is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for certainty. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
certainty is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing certainty unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is certainty, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from certainty earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in certainty produce 290 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.